Month: August 2016

God’s home is heaven (Is 66:1,2); Israel’s temple was only a place he occasionally visited (1Ki 8:10,11). But Jesus’ body became the permanent earthly home of God (Jo 2:18-21): a living temple, later extended when the Holy Spirit came to

When Jesus died, God ripped apart the magnificent curtains in the temple and its inner, sacred room was exposed as empty (Lk 23:45). That moment captured what was true about the religion that Jesus found in Judah: it had a

On the day of Pentecost, Jesus used miracles and preaching to challenge Jerusalem’s sins (Ac 2:14-36). Now he is doing so again, with a dramatic healing and another bold sermon from Peter (Ac 3:1-8). The effect is powerful and, this